Forouzan Eslami, a Kurdish citizen from Urmia and an English language teacher, was arrested by security forces in this city and transferred to an undisclosed location. According to Kolbarnews, on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, security forces approached the location where Forouzan Eslami was present and arrested her without presenting a […]
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Taher Ghaderzadeh, Ahmad Ghaderi, and Suleiman Abdi, teachers’ union activists in Saqqez, are facing judicial cases opened at the city’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office. According to Kolbarnews, citing the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, three teachers’ union activists in Kurdistan have been confronted with judicial cases.Taher Ghaderzadeh, […]
Seventeen teachers in Kurdistan have recently faced heavy disciplinary rulings issued by the Administrative Violations Board of the Ministry of Education. The rulings include permanent dismissal, temporary suspension, forced retirement, administrative relocation, and bans from holding managerial positions. According to Kolbarnews, citing the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, […]
Amid ongoing security pressures on teachers’ union activists in Kurdistan, four members of the Sanandaj Teachers’ Union Association were summoned to the FARAJA Intelligence Office in recent days and subjected to interrogation. According to Kolbarnews and based on received reports, amid ongoing security pressures on teachers’ union activists in Kurdistan, […]
Shahram Karimi, Loghmanollah Moradi, Soleiman Abdi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, Hiwa Qureshi, and Omid Shahmohammadi, teacher union activists from Saqqez and Divandarreh have been subjected to disciplinary rulings by the Appeals Board for Administrative Violations of the Ministry of Education. The rulings include suspension from service, dismissal from the Ministry […]
Mohammadreza Moradi, Salahuddin Hajimirzaei, Behzad Ghavami, Seyed Ghiyas Na’mati, Reza Tahmasbi, Shahriar Naderi, Aram Ebrahimi, Sadegh Kenani, Majid Karimi, Mokhtar Asadi, Fatemeh Zandkarimi, Nasrin Karimi, Faisal Nouri, Rezgar Heidari, and Kourosh Ezzati Amini, all teacher union activists have been summoned to the Criminal Court in Sanandaj. According to Kolbarnews, these […]
Branch 31 of the Court of Administrative Justice upheld the dismissal of Somayeh Akhtarshemar, a labor union activist and teacher from Marivan, rejecting her appeal and confirming the initial ruling. According to Kolbarnews, citing the Telegram channel of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, the dismissal of Somayeh […]
Arezoo Jalilzadeh, a schoolteacher in Sardasht, was arrested by security forces and transferred to a security detention center in Urmia. According to Kolbarnews, on Monday, March 3, 2025, Arezoo Jalilzadeh, a teacher in Sardasht, was arrested by security forces in the city and taken to a security detention center in […]
The dismissal order for Leila Salimi, a teachers’ union activist from Sanandaj, issued by the Ministry of Education’s Administrative Violations Appeals Board, has been reduced to a two-month suspension from service. According to Kolbarnews, citing the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Union Associations, Leila Salimi has been temporarily suspended from […]
Omid Shah-Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaveh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiwa Qureshi, teacher union activists from Divandareh, have been sentenced to dismissal from their positions and exile by the Preliminary Disciplinary Committee for Education Employees in Kurdistan Province. According to Kolbarnews, citing the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, these educators were […]